Frans Winther

Frans Winther is a composer and musician.
He was born in 1947 in Støvring, Denmark. Frans Winther studied at
the Nordjysk Music Conservatory and has composed music for various
theatre groups and orchestras. He joined Odin Teatret in 1987
where he performs as musician and composes/arranges music for its
performances and other activities such as Holstebro Festuge
(Festive Week), ISTA,
Theatrum Mundi, barters and he also directs transformances
(theatricalisation of a specific social milieu) around the world.
He has created two operas: Shakuntala (his own libretto
based on Kalidasa's play) and EZRA (directed by him, with
libretto by Peter Laugesen based on Ezra Pound's life and poems).
Frans Winther has initiated the monthly poetry evenings in
Holstebro, The Omar Kayyám Evenings.
He has put poems by Thomas Boberg to music on the CD The
Tide, the Day, and the Light of Parting, and by Ib Michael on
the CD The Breath.